Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Marie Whittington

An accounting employee for Southwest Regional Medical Center, she died Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, at the Liberty Community Living Center, Liberty, Miss.

She was born Nov. 25, 1946, in Liberty, the daughter of Lyman Jones and Evelyn Smith Jones.

Survived by her husband, Paul Michael ``Mike'' Whittington; three brothers, Lenny Jones, Preston Jones and wife Gwen, and Mike Jones, all of Liberty; nieces and nephews, Bobby Jones and wife Denise, Jessica Jones, Tracy Dreher, Mitchel Perkins and wife Angel, Brandon Jones, Tara LeBlanc and husband Stewart, Dana Haygood and husband Kyle, Joshua Jones and wife Sarah, Becky Wall, Crystal Guedry, Kim Jarveau and Adam Whittington; great-nieces and great-nephews, Christopher Jones, Caitlynn Jones, Jake Haygood, Gabriela Videgaray, Trenton Jones, Parker Jones, Elaina Perkins, Charlie LeBlanc, Sawyer LeBlanc, Lelia Jones, Kai LaFontaine, Dakota Guedry, Taylor Guedry, Derek Guedry, Nicholas Guedry, Noah Jarreau, Wyatt Whittington; two sisters-in-law, Patsy Whittington, of Gloster, Miss., Sandra Wall and husband Jamie, of Gillsburg, Miss.; two brothers-in-law, Ray Whittington and wife Dana, of Tylertown, Miss., and Gary Dale Whittington, of Liberty; and mother-in-law, Norma Holland, of Liberty.

Preceded in death by her parents, Lyman Jones and Evelyn Smith Jones; brother, Donald Wade Jones; niece, Lisa Renee Jones; two nephews, Donald Christopher Jones Jr. and Daniel Allen Dreher; and father-in-law, Paul Whittington.

Visiting Thursday, Sept. 1, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Brown Funeral Home, Gloster, Miss. Visiting continues Friday, Sept. 2, from 9 a.m. until funeral service at 11 a.m., with Brother James Sadler and Brother Merrill Blalock officiating.

Interment in Brumfield-Whittington Cemetery, near Liberty.

Pallbearers will be Bobby Jones, Brandon Jones, Joshua Jones, Mitchell Perkins, Greg Payne and Jeff Barbay.

Honorary pallbearers are Chris Williams and Gary Austin.